Places remain for Stagecoach summer camps

Thu, Jun 25, 2015

PLACES REMAIN on Stagecoach Galway's August 2015 summer camps for 12 to 18-year-olds, which will be concentrating on the musical Fame Jr.

What lies Underneath

Thu, Jun 18, 2015

WRITER AND performer Pat Kinevane comes to the Town Hall Theatre on Tuesday, June 23, at 8pm with his latest acclaimed solo play, Underneath. Presented by Fishamble Theatre Company and directed by Jim Culleton, this remarkable piece premiered in December 2014 and is now on a national tour.

Red Rock actor in one man show at Town Hall

Thu, May 28, 2015

FRESH FROM a stint on Red Rock, after appearing in George Clooney's Monuments Men, actor Declan Mills comes to The Town Hall Theatre with Arthur's Dig on Thursday June 11 at 8pm.

See Big Maggie in An Taibhdhearc

Thu, May 21, 2015

JOHN B Keane's Big Maggie, about a widow who must deal with unruly children and unwanted suitors, will be staged by the Athenry Drama Group in An Taibhdhearc on Thursday May 28 and Friday 29 at 8pm.

The Dirty Circus Everybody Love Everybody Party

Thu, May 21, 2015

SEXINESS, SAUCE, song, and a whole lotta love will be on stage and in the room when The Dirty Circus burlesque and cabaret show returns to the Róisín Dubh this Saturday at 9pm for its Everybody Love Everybody Party.

Theatre review: DruidShakespeare

Theatre Reviews Wed, May 20, 2015

IN RECENT years Druid Theatre Company has shown itself the master of largescale theatrical projects with both DruidSynge and DruidMurphy. Yet in both cases it was dealing with playwrights in whose work it already had a deep grounding, writers and plays that could be said to be part of the company’s DNA.

'When you work with puppetry the detail is paramount'

Thu, May 14, 2015

YOUNG PLAY-goers in Galway are in for a treat when Branar Téatar and Denmark’s Theatre Refleksion bring their captivating version of Oliver Jeffers’ The Way Back Home to the Black Box Theatre this Saturday and Sunday at 1pm and 3pm.

KATS to stage Dancing at Lughnasa

Thu, May 14, 2015

DANCING AT Lughnasa, Brian Friel's most famous play, and one of his greatest, will be staged in An Taibhdhearc, by the Knocknacarra Amateur Theatre Society from Wednesday May 20 to Saturday 23 at 8pm.

Moonfish Theatre - Thrice upon a time

Thu, May 14, 2015

THE GALWAY Music Festival, which takes place this weekend, is never complete without a free family show from Moonfish Theatre Company, and this year's event is going to be Grimm.

The Matchmaker - tickets still available

Thu, May 14, 2015

TOMORROW'S STAGING of John B Keane's much loved comedy The Matchmaker is almost sold-out [May 15], but there are still tickets available to the Saturday May 16 performance.

The lives of the Brontës - on stage

Thu, May 07, 2015

HOW IS it possible that three women, living in isolation on the Yorkshire moors, could have written some of the most powerful and passionate fiction of all time?

A theatre show in support of YesEquality

Thu, May 07, 2015

A YOUNG woman finds herself at an unexpected, yet strangely inevitable, crossroads, and in this situation, she has an odd proposal to put to an audience.

The Way Back Home

Thu, May 07, 2015

A BOY discovers a single-propeller aeroplane in his closet, which amazingly allows him fly into space, where he meets an alien who needs a friend and some help.

Women buried alive in a tomb

Thu, May 07, 2015

CONDEMNED TO die with their emperor in his tomb, the concubines who have not produced any male children ponder their fate. This is the setting for Bryony Lavery’s play More Light.

‘The play is about power’ - Bernard Field discusses The Early Hours

Thu, Apr 30, 2015

FIVE YEARS after its premiere, Bernard Field’s tense psycho-drama, The Early Hours, returns to the Town Hall Studio next week in a new production from Field’s own Haw Theatre Company.

DruidShakespeare begins next week

Thu, Apr 30, 2015

DRUIDSHAKESPEARE, the epic cycle of plays where the Galway company takes on, not an Irish playwright, but the greatest English dramatist of all time, starts next week.

The Tale Of Ancient Lights

Thu, Apr 30, 2015

THE TALE Of The Ancient Lights, an award-winning one-man show fusing circus, dance, magic, echnology, and Asian art, is coming to the Galway Theatre Festival.

A night of ballet and jazz dance

Thu, Apr 30, 2015

THE REGINA Rogers School of Ballet is to perform what promises to be dazzling display ballet and jazz dance at the Town Hall Theatre from Wednesday May 6 to Friday 8, at 8pm.

NoRopes to stage Dario Fo play

Thu, Apr 30, 2015

THE OPEN Couple by Italian writer Dario Fo and his wife Franca Rame, will be staged in the Town Hall Theatre studio by new Galway theatre company NoRopes.